A French paradox Simon Epstein, French historian residing in Jerusalem, pushes received number of ideas and clichés about the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, which weigh heavily on major contemporary social debates. Author sappuie hundreds of individual paths, that it analyzes dispassionately while denouncing the official history of manipulation since 1945.
It shows lambivalence some humanitarian sentiments displayed and highlights how Professions humanistic faith and good conscience antiracist does not necessarily lead to the choice of courage and generosity.
To read without hesitation to understand what it means lies and manipulations that occur even today.
For my part I could verify that the mere mention of the book's title puts uncomfortable some of my contemporaries (epidermal reaction).
